Culture
Movies
The highs and lows of the Sydney Film Festival
After an opening night attraction that lived up to the hype, there was a lot to enjoy and the odd disappointment.
- by Garry Maddox
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These vacant railway yards at Redfern could be our next mega film studios
Filmmakers, architects and investors are believed to be backing a plan to transform an industrial site into a facility to make new film and television content.
- by Linda Morris and Michael McGowan
As Jaws turns 50, who is the blockbuster’s real hero?
Steven Spielberg’s saga of man v shark is not the film you remember.
- by The Economist
Celine Song blew us away with Past Lives. Is Materialists a perfect match?
Billed as a rom-com, the Dakota Johnson-Chris Evans-Pedro Pascal love triangle is actually a rather hard-headed look at marriage.
- by Karl Quinn
Dragon live-action remake maintains a safe distance from reality
Writer-director Dean DeBlois evidently sees no need to mess with what worked in the past in this new version of How to Train Your Dragon.
- by Jake Wilson
Opinion
Web culture
Why Mountainhead’s ‘tech bro’ satire rings eerily true
A new movie from the creator of hit series Succession has shown us what happens when AI and social media are unregulated.
- by Julia Baird
‘Not remotely similar’: Lawyer for Aussie film slams copyright lawsuit
The team behind Aussie body horror Together were sued by a US filmmaker alleging copyright infringement last month.
- by Nell Geraets
Hollywood studios sue AI company over ‘unauthorised’ Darth Vader and Minions copies
In a legal first, Disney and Universal have accused Midjourney of “pirating” their libraries to make copies of the Star Wars villain and other iconic characters.
- by Shawn Chen and Matt O'Brien
Jodie Comer reveals why her new zombie thriller feels very familiar
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later has echoes of very recent world events that seemed impossible when he made the first film in the franchise back in 2002.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
‘Predatory, terrifying and unacceptable’: The accusations faced by Jared Leto
The Oscar-winning star of Dallas Buyers Club is engulfed in a #MeToo scandal just months before the release of his big-budget Disney movie Tron: Ares.
- by Ed Power
Aussie actors Miranda Tapsell and Justin Rosnier reveal what it was like to work with Nicolas Cage
Miranda Tapsell describes working with Hollywood legend Nicolas Cage as a "baptism of fire".